Attorney-client privilege is formidable and taken very seriously in California. The privilege is not, however, absolute.

Attorney-client privilege (which comes from a variety of sources, depending on the state and court) and work product doctrine (which rests on ...

In the context of third-party liability claims, a familiar arrangement arises when an insurer retains defense counsel for its insured: the ...

A federal judge has denied a motion to dismiss or suppress evidence in the case against an area nonprofit's founders who are ...

Jurisdictions confronted with this common situation have offered some helpful, although inconclusive, guidance, and the below recent cases can shed light on how privilege is applied in real-world ...

Act, introducing attorney-client privilege (ACP) between lawyers and clients, passed the National Assembly plenary session on the 29th. The revised bill stipulates that legal consultations between ...

The former in-house lawyer for a defunct business entity can't invoke attorney-client privilege to keep from submitting subpoenaed documents in a suit against it, the state Superior Court has ruled.

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The attorney-client privilege preserves the confidentiality of communications between lawyers and their clients. As a legal entity, the University can assert the privilege. Communications may be ...

A flat-bladed screwdriver can hew away strips of wood. But any woodworker knows a chisel would be the preferred tool for shaving and shaping the wood. Forcing a tool to perform another task not only ...

Samantha Weissbluth, senior counsel, and Simon Johnson, associate, Foley & Lardner LLP, Chicago The fiduciary exception to attorney-client privilege has long complicated attorneys’ lives. And that’s ...

Attorneys generally bill time in tenths of an hour, dutifully keeping for clients a contemporaneous record of everything from conversations, to areas of law researched, to summaries and outcomes of ...